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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

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We find non-ergodic processes in places like the economy, logistics networks [5]. 5] "Detecting Non-Ergodic Simulation Models of Logistics Networks," Falko Bause and Jan Krige, Value Tools '07 , October 23-25, 2007. [6] But there is still an open two-part question: Are software developemnt projects non-ergodic? Whitney and Charles B.